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http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/she-is-miserable-melania-trump-reportedly-unhappy-with-new-role-as-first-lady/
According to sources speaking with US Weekly, the wife of Donald Trump didnt sign up to be in the political spotlight when she married him in 2005. The reluctance to play the role of wife of the president may be why the very private Melania has remained in their Manhattan penthouse while Trump spends his weekdays at the White House.
According to a friend of the family, the former model, Is unhappy with how her life ended up. She is miserable.
The First Lady has remained in New York since her husband was inaugurated. She joins him in Florida when he makes his weekly sojourn to his Mar-a-Lago resort, where she poses for the cameras with him, saying she is most happy there because she Loves Palm Beach.
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Melania has the Secret Service take Barron to school and retrieve him, the source explained.
Added to the First Ladys woes is the fact that her attorneys now say that attacks on her have damaged her prospects of launching a multi-million dollar fashion line under her own name.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Blue_Adept
(6,417 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Ilsa
(61,734 posts)a liberal radio talk show host, said that a very reliable source had told him that Melania had plans to file for divorce after he lost the election. She's pissed he won because now she feels trapped. I think she should file anyway.
dhol82
(9,369 posts)Doubt that she will walk away from this marriage with a honey pot.
Thrill
(19,178 posts)I think shes just miserable being with Trump any way.
alterfurz
(2,482 posts)Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)Her coping mechanism was the desire to mirror Ivanka and have a "line" of products, and now there is no "line," no market for a "line," and so she sits in Trump Tower watching Barron watch cartoons, and hating her life.
That said, it's her life, and without having any kind of idea what Trump's attorneys put in the pre-nup, she's free to leave at any time.
Lotusflower70
(3,077 posts)Cry me a river, build a fucking bridge and get over it. Seriously? This woman needs to grow up or shut up. Yeah I said it. She could be working on that anti-bullying campaign she spoke of. And I don't even want to start on her lawsuit comments. Ugh. She is so pathetic. Harsh? Maybe but I really don't care.
katsy
(4,246 posts)Ty
tallahasseedem
(6,716 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)your husband who is the dictator does it constantly.
Lotusflower70
(3,077 posts)But everything begins at home. You have to start somewhere.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)I was kind of sorta being sarcastic with my comment.
Lotusflower70
(3,077 posts)Sorry it's hard to tell with the sarcasm sometimes. I started off having some sympathy for her but that is pretty much gone now.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)He was the same repulsive asshole when she married him. Her choice 100%.
Lotusflower70
(3,077 posts)I prefer to be blunt but some people think it's harsh. It's just reality. She chose it.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)But she obviously thought it was to her advantage. I do not sympathise with her at all. Barron is another matter. Poor kid.
Lotusflower70
(3,077 posts)No amount of money in the world is worth that. My sympathy is definitely with Barron.
bdamomma
(64,152 posts)has a very close relationship with Barron, 45 is just concerned about himself.
Lotusflower70
(3,077 posts)He seems very detached from him just he is with Tiffany.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Melania had to know he was a misogynist thug when she married him. AND she campaigned for him (albeit reluctantly). I have zero sympathy for her.
samnsara
(17,742 posts)with all the soft porn pics of her circulating the world I think that trains long gone...
Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)is someone that wants to be in the spotlight like that. for the impaired.
We don't need to slut shame Melania.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)At the inauguration ... yes (she was present), but has she actually done anything?
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)Ilsa
(61,734 posts)after the election, according to a source who told a liberal talk show host. It was in a thread on DU last night.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)"She's already done more in her first three weeks as First Lady than Michelle did in two terms!"
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)Takket
(21,912 posts)Tell him you want him to resign and come home to be with you.
Good luck
JenniferJuniper
(4,518 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)mahina
(17,942 posts)Cha
(299,354 posts)sunonmars
(8,656 posts)Its obvious she does not want the job or intends to do it.
Cha
(299,354 posts)information then.
All the stuff that gets leaked seems to be true.
bdamomma
(64,152 posts)isn't her line sinking?????
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)Buy the ticket, take the ride.
livetohike
(22,234 posts)Family?
Doreen
(11,686 posts)They might be the only ones in this country that are happy.
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)She married the pig for money and now she's patiently waiting for him to kick the bucket so she can have it all.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)superpatriotman
(6,267 posts)Sing with me...
Always look on the bright side of life!
Etc.
Tanuki
(14,958 posts)She is in a shelter in Mexico, separated from her US citizen children, thanks to being rounded up and deported by Melania's devil of a husband. Her only "crime" was working illegally when she first arrived here 20 years ago. That's something Melania can relate to, since she did the same damn thing. I have to prioritize my sympathies these days, having only so many fucks available to give at any one time. Melania is pretty far down on the list. She has several hours of free time each weekday when Barron is in school, and she could spend that time doing something useful and rewarding if she chose to. I hope she will find a good therapist who can help her explore the source of her unhappiness and work toward making whatever changes are necessary to move on to greater fulfillment. I don't think the attorneys who are feeding her unrealistic fantasy of a "multi-million dollar fashion line under her own name" are doing her any favors.
manicraven
(901 posts)Motley13
(3,867 posts)stopping cyber bullying begins at home, so far she is not doing so good
Grammy23
(5,820 posts)The reason she hasn't started her Anti-bullying campaign is because she can read the tea leaves that tRump won't be in office long enough for her to bother.
I have seen few pictures of her where she looks genuinely happy. In many she has kind of a sultry glare, a vixen on the prowl. I am sure tRump likes it but in the role of First Lady...it is a bit disconcerting.
Ilsa
(61,734 posts)Helpful to other people, like volunteer work, protesting the president, etc.
latinaliberal
(102 posts)sheshe2
(84,537 posts)We are none to pleased either.
Boomerproud
(8,049 posts)Make your bed and all that. I never think about her. Her First Lady Bio will be 1 page long.
louis-t
(23,374 posts)You'll never be able to wash the stink off yourself. She made one brief attempt at some kind of agenda at first. I suppose realizing that her husband was the biggest cyber-bully on the planet stopped her in her tracks. No first lady agenda, no leadership, no respect, constantly in hiding...
NRaleighLiberal
(60,072 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)The whole freakin republican family is pissing on America's honor, dignity and national security.
MindPilot
(12,693 posts)To me she has the demeanor of a "host" on Westworld. Everything about her is mechanical, artificial and programmed.
still_one
(92,766 posts)raccoon
(31,182 posts)And she can file for divorce.
still_one
(92,766 posts)Blue Owl
(51,253 posts)n/t
unblock
(52,880 posts)i can see that a traditional first lady role can certainly suck, but donnie has thrown tradition and norms to the wind, so she has the perfect opening to redefine the role of first lady however she wants.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)when you are a mail order bride or the equivalent of a mail order bride which she is.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Solly Mack
(90,902 posts)OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)em
NCjack
(10,280 posts)"I'm pissed off" look. Everyone is then supposed to approach her and say "I don't want you to be PO'd -- what can I do?" And she replies "Buy my sponsor's product, so he will pay me more." In this case, that means be nice to #45 so he will be good to his wife." Doesn't work on me.
Maeve
(42,404 posts)A beautiful sight to see,
You may think she's happy and free from care,
She's not, though she seems to be,
'Tis sad when you think of her wasted life,
For youth cannot mate with age,
And her beauty was sold,
For an old man's gold,
She's a bird in a gilded cage.
jalan48
(13,990 posts)WhiteTara
(29,786 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)I surmise that Trump never bothered to ask Melania whether she wanted him to run for President? That would be a real jerk move but I bet that is exactly what he did.
bdamomma
(64,152 posts)too bad his stubborn ass didn't listen to her. She was happy with her life.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)He didn't care about her or what she wanted.
She should divorce him.
bdamomma
(64,152 posts)and I'm sure she would be financially set.
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)I don't think there is any reason to believe he treats her well. The campaign humiliated her by sending her out to give a plagiarized speech. Then comes the videos and she knows everyone in the world knows she is married to a man who does not respect women at all.
I think she must be very unhappy and probably is not able to leave the marriage.
JI7
(89,404 posts)i don't think she is as bad as his 2 older sons and ivanka but i don't feel bad for her at all .
2naSalit
(87,893 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(10,275 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,930 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)with her husband that she ever thought she had too. Meds only help so much.
Sucks to be you, pack your suitcase and leave. At least, someone might take you, for enough funds. Lots of DU'ers wished they had that option. I'm sure they have an extra apt in Snowdens building.
oasis
(50,012 posts)CountAllVotes
(20,897 posts)central scrutinizer
(11,745 posts)Sorry, but I ran out of fucks to give a long time ago, you privileged gold digger.
LisaM
(27,930 posts)so why should she be able to?
I'd give credit, but I can't remember who said it. Anyway, I thought it was brilliant.
matt819
(10,749 posts)Including your husband.
You were an illegal immigrant trophy wife. You made your proverbial bed. Go lie down on it. Or get out of your marriage. Your choice. You're costing this country tens ic millions of dollars. No one cares if you haz a sad.
MindPilot
(12,693 posts)Are you starting to discover the guy whom you married for money, doesn't actually have any?
Suck it up, buttercup.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,155 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,255 posts)She could bring him down, expose to all what a horrid nightmare he is, that he reads and writes at a 4th grade level
That he calls people the N word and more.
She has a choice, the question is when she exposes him as one of the worst human beings alive on planet earth
WOULD IT MATTER?
Would republicans care?
Tanuki
(14,958 posts)It would be a best seller. She would make millions and could live comfortably and independently for the rest of her life.
Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)Cry me a river. No sympathy, she chose this life and she chose Trump- she could have just as easily went for another rich target. She knew what kind of narcissistic asshole he was going in, so big surprise. Get over it.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)MFM008
(19,863 posts)why do they all think we are clamoring for their garbage?
"fashion line".....................
d_r
(6,907 posts)that we can pay our taxes to support her staying in new york
Charles Bukowski
(1,132 posts)The more miserable she is, the better.
onecaliberal
(33,419 posts)Maybe she needs cheese to go with her whine.
MineralMan
(146,413 posts)There must be a few thousand in NYC alone.
tammywammy
(26,582 posts)She never signed up to be a politician's wife.
Also, with some of the stuff that falls to the First Lady, they should just hire staff. I don't think anyone should require an unpaid wife to be responsible for White House tours. State dinners can still be planned without a First Lady, the staff can make decisions on their own. I'm okay if she doesn't want to do the First Lady ceremonial gig. I can see why she'd show up to visit with like Prime Minister Abe's wife, but otherwise, if she just wants to stay in New York then I don't care.
struggle4progress
(118,566 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,375 posts)Melania did not have to participate in her husbands racist birther crap. She did not have to attempt to discredit and delegitimize President Barack Obama in a nakedly race-based attack; but she did choose to do that.
Melania did not have to go on Anderson Cooper and defend and excuse that bloated maggot and his pussy-grabbing tape by trying to blame it all on Billy Bush "for egg him on" - a phrase she had clearly never used in her life; but she did choose to do that.
Melania did not have to belittle the seriousness of sexual assault against women by dismissing the hateful, violent words of her husband by dismissing it as "silly boy talks," but she did choose to do that.
Melania did not have to claim that every single woman (16? 17? more?) who came forward, painfully, with stories of how they had been sexually assaulted, abused and intimidated by Trump was a liar and berate the press for not investigating all of the women and their "backgrounds." But she did choose to do that.
Melania did not have to hole up in Manhattan, treating taxpayer-paid secret service as her private help to bus and fetch her kid from school while she lays about doing whatever the fuck she does up there all day, costing American tax payers a staggering fee of 1 MILLION dollars a DAY. Plenty of women who had little fondness for spending time with their presidential spouse somehow managed to live in the White House anyway. It's not good enough for her? Fuck you toots. She should be ashamed of costing this country so much for her selfishness; but she chose to do it anyway.
Finally, Melania did not have to scheme to use our house, our sacred home, the people's White House to hawk her nasty-ass fish-egg face plaster that she rubs her son down with head to toe every night, her ugly jewelry, and whatever else kind of Chinese-made garbage she was planning on QVC'ing from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue; but apparently, she had chosen to anyway.
Melania is miserable? GOOD.
mshasta
(2,108 posts)She wanted a rich guy.....now she better work for the American people.....You can't hide in your stupid tower ....I am paying your ass to get to work ....
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)...Reed plays Bama McCall, the local bad guy who shakes down businesses for "protection" money, and whose base of operation is a bordello stocked exclusively with under aged girls.
starshine00
(531 posts)christ on a cracker, if she's private then I must be damn near invisible or something...
kskiska
(27,057 posts)Not many good years left. She's probably in menopause already. But surely she could latch onto another, more palatable, rich guy.
erpowers
(9,350 posts)I think she is unhappy in her marriage, but I think the real reason she is upset is that she will not make money off of being First Lady. I think she had plans to be all over HSN and QVC selling her line. I do not think the accusations of being a prostitute are what really hurt her chances of making millions of dollars while in the White House. I think, after Trump got elected, someone told her should would not be able to make money selling things because it might be against the law for the first lady to try to sell items. They may have told her that even if it was not illegal it was tacky and she just should not do such a thing. She may have seen what happened to Ivanka Kushner's line and realized that no one was going to buy anything she put out partly because of angry towards her husband's policies. So, now she is stuck as first lady for at least four years and she will most likely make little money off of the gig.
area51
(11,977 posts)Kwitcher Bitchin', and get a divorce!
TrumpMania
(13 posts)the ex-callgirl without a real college degree is unhappy with beeing the First Lady.
MFM008
(19,863 posts)Can quit whining. Just because she chose to marry the most repulsive creature on Earth was entirely her call.
Isnt it terrible when rich pampered people are forced to be so miserable.
malaise
(270,808 posts)FUCK - we are way more miserable.
underpants
(183,653 posts)"Pretty Woman" was originally written to be a dark movie that didn't end well.
Hold it. Maybe I posted this on the wrong thread. Sorry for the confusion if I did.
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)greymattermom
(5,756 posts)is dated.
hatrack
(59,692 posts)She chose to marry this pig. Fuck her.
dalton99a
(82,126 posts)Poor billionaire's wife.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts). . . that these same Republicans that held Laura Bush as the exemplar of a traditional and loyal First Lady not only attacked Michelle Obama every chance they could, but strangely give Melania a free pass because reasons.
Whether she likes it or not, The First Lady is a role that has tradition and responsibility attached to it; historically, the First Women of this country (in both parties) have made great strides with children's and women's charities and educational programs. For Melania to just duck all of this and pout in a gilded penthouse because life with Sugar Daddy didn't turn out the way she planned just adds more disgrace and contempt to her husband's already-destructive vanity presidency.
BumRushDaShow
(131,903 posts)are probably laughing their asses off.
Grammy23
(5,820 posts)kstewart33
(6,551 posts)She very likely did not ask for this. If she opposed Trump running, it would not have mattered.
It's her life. She should live her life as she thinks best. Which seems to be centered on her son.
If so, bravo to her for trying to be a good mother.
Retrograde
(10,242 posts)Say, a move to Washington, DC: she could take in the sights, visit the various Smithsonian museums, maybe make some friends at the Slovenian embassy...and if she's still miserable she can at least be happy she's saving the taxpayers several million dollars a month.
jeanmarc
(1,685 posts)Barron CAN change schools. I did it about 4 times in my life. Delicate Barron CAN change schools.
She's fucking up NYC by making them provide ridiculous security for the two of them. She's fucking up local businesses. She's costing people millions of dollars PER DAY.
FUCK OFF MELANIA. Shit or get off the pot. Divorce him, or move to DC. This pouting act is almost as ridiculous as your awful husband.
No sympathy whatsoever.
mnhtnbb
(31,525 posts)Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)BigDemVoter
(4,169 posts)She should "love it or leave it"!
She can go back to where she came from as far as I'm concerned. She's as trashy as Pussy Grabber and the rest of his minions.
edbermac
(15,974 posts)Would you do it to Michelle? They are off limits in my book.
And the kids also.